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Earth Tremor Hits Britian

 
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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:11 am    Post subject: Earth Tremor Hits Britian Reply with quote

The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of England.

People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

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I wonder if we will get some after shocks. Janice Long on Radio 2 was reporting it from callers before the News Channels were.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, we were awakened here in East Warwickshire just before 1.00am, felt like a tornado (have experienced one of those) shaking the house, and oddly like something on the roof. Three of us were awakened, daughter slept through it. The noise from the roof I know was loose bits of plaster moving between the tiles and the insulation sheet.

It was a proper earthquake 5.2 centred in Lincs near Wragby where we had a little break last year).

In nearby Coventry a house wall has partially collapsed.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

People were telephoning the radio stations as soon as it happened.

Once the rattling of glasses and crockery in our cupboards had subsided I turned on Radio Trent and, because someone had twiddled the wrong knob somewhere, you could hear behind the music people calling in and describing how it had felt - they then replayed the calls properly a couple of minutes later. It was about half an hour before it was mentioned, as a "minor tremor" on BBC News 24
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember the last one, centred on Dudley five years ago, was a short bump and jolt, This was longer, a rumbling with sideways movement.

Many people slept through it (my wife and her mother too, so we learned this morning as she wondered what the fuss was about). It woke the birds up, though, and set off a few burglar alarms. No damage that I can see locally.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RockitRon wrote:
It was about half an hour before it was mentioned, as a "minor tremor" on BBC News 24


Who says the BBC are London centric? Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dreadful isn't it? Fancy spelling Britain wrong Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MadeinSurrey wrote:
Dreadful isn't it? Fancy spelling Britain wrong Rolling Eyes


The earthquake caused the letters to move around! Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The News this morning said that it was felt as far north as Newcastle but I live 10 miles to its west and heard and felt nothing.

Perhaps its effects were more sporadic further away from the epicentre.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:02 pm    Post subject: Songs for the occasion..... Reply with quote

Some suitable song titles for the occasion?

Whole lotta shakin' going on.....Jerry Lee Lewis
Shake, rattle and roll.....Big Joe Turner
My world is caving in.. Leroy Van Dyke
Tossing and turning....Bobby Lewis
Up on the roof...........The Drifters
England Swings.........Roger Miller

Over to you..... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JW had some fun this morning - I Feel The Earth Move (Carole King), All Shook Up (Elvis), Good Vibrations (Beach Boys), Whole Lotta Shakin' (Jerry Lee Lewis). He played the Drifters' Under The Boardwalk, though.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only live 20 miles away, but heard and felt absolutely nothing. Must have had other things on my mind. Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, it woke me up here in Newcastle this morning.... thought a large truck was driving past the front of the house. Served as a earlier-than-requested alarm clock for driving down to Wales this morning - was interesting listening to R5Live on the way down and the reports of chimneys falling down in Gainsborough - more damage there than in Market Rasen.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was woken by the most horrendous crash as my wallet was dislodged from the bedside cabinet.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:49 am    Post subject: Wall Street Crash.... Reply with quote

Are you still keeping just pound coins in it? Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, it woke me up here in Newcastle this morning....
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Looking at the map in today's paper, I think it just skirted round us.

Wish I could say the same of the (police?) helicopter that woke me at 3:45am today!

Ian.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Woke me with a crashing sound, thought my grandson had run into the garage doors on my push bike, which he borrows to go to the pub Shocked

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It woke me up and I was in Hampshire Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:55 pm    Post subject: Over the rainbow..... Reply with quote

It must have been frightening waking up in Hampshire. Where did you go to bed? Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The big hoot on US chat shows last week, e.g. Jay Leno, was 'The English Earthquake'.

They reminded viewers what earthquakes were, showing film of collapsed highways in LA and towns reduced to rubble in Mexico, many casualties, then they showed newsreels in England from last week, of really concerned reporters, phone-ins from people whose CDs and birthday cards fell over, oh and in the whole country yes just one chimney did fall though a ceiling, one person injured in the whole country....... and it was headline news for six days Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nearly as funny as what most of us feel about their Presidential Election process and campaigning. At least, it would be funny if it weren't for real.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RockitRon wrote:
I remember the last one, centred on Dudley five years ago,


Actually it was centred on Melton Mowbray, the Dudley one was some years earlier, and I don't recall feeling that one.
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